Will shriveled garlic grow?

lilacs_of_mayNovember 18, 2007

I'm getting my garlic cloves in the ground as fast as I can, but I've noticed that some of the cloves have shriveled. They're not as firm and juicy as they were when they started out. Will they still grow okay? Or am I wasting my time putting them in the ground?

As long as they are just a little shriveled and not to the point of being hard, you should be ok. For some reason my German Browns do that every year - I just plant them like normal and I'll usually lose only one or two out of 30.